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[Weetbix Kid]

I live a little out of the way, WITHOUT an oven (crying into my pillow at night styles) and have become Suzie Homemaker, in order to eat semi-healthy Western food.

I think maybe several people here are in same position, so here's my pizza recipe. I can't actually grill the top of it, but here it is anyway

1 t yeast
1/2 t sugar
1/2 c water
1 t salt
1 T olive oil
1.5 c flour plus extra for kneading

Mix yeast, sugar and water (warmed to blood temperature) together, and leave for 10 minutes in a warm place until yeast is bubbly. In this cold weather I suggest filling your sink with very warm water, and letting it sit in there.

Then mix all other ingredients in with the yeast and mix well. Knead, adding flour if necessary, until it's fairly shiny, and is no longer sticking to your hands.

Return to the mixing bowl, cover with gladwrap (clingfilm / saranwrap are other names I think) and then return to the warm sink or on the ondol until it's doubled in size, or is at least a fair bit bigger.

Roll out on a dry surface using a rolling pin or it's equivalent (I use a wine bottle) until it's the size of the base of your biggest frying pan.

At a fairly low heat, pop a little olive oil (maybe 1 T) into the pan, and then put the dough in. It should start to puff up a bit. Check the bottom regularly, and when it's brown / crispy enough for you, turn it over.

You can now put toppings on, although I suggest not going too crazy, as it'll slide off. Check the new bottom regularly, and again when it's brown, it's ready! Enjoy.

Personally, I use a little pasta sauce as my base, pre-fried onions, cherry tomatoes, capsicum, olives (when I can get them) and maybe a little prefried bacon.

This serves my boyfriend and I as dinner, with a salad on the side.

[Fishead soup]

Go to a Halal Indian restaurants buy some roti and use that as a base for your pizza.

[sojourner1]

LOL I tried pizza last year in a skillet with a lid and the crust just burns or cooks too fast to actually bake while I hoped enough heat would build up in the enclosed skillet. I think it could be done if you could raise it on a tiny rack fitting the inside of your skillet and then set a round metal disk(cut a baking sheet?) on the rack (bent small steel pieces?) lifting it 1 or 2 inches. This would require, preferably, the largest skillet with a lid you can find. Originally, oven baking was done inside a large iron pan with a lid over a fire so it's feasable to have a top oven over a range, but no company manufactures a range top oven. It's really just heating a metal box up over a fire to actually have the capability to bake bread, cookies, and pizza.


This year, I got an oven and bake pizza just like in the west. All made from scratch, even the dough. Some Emart stores sell sticks of pepperoni or you can get it on Gmarket.

[DrOctagon]

Yeah, just order a decent sized toaster oven and bake it in there...

[wanderingbear]

great recipe, i will def try this out

[sojusucks]

[quote="Weetbix Kid"]
1 t yeast
1/2 t sugar
1/2 c water
1 t salt
1 T olive oil
1.5 c flour plus extra for kneading[quote]

I also live out of the way and don't have an oven .

I have found yeast at the Foreign Food Market not far from the subway exit by the Hamilton in Itaewon.

Sugar is easy enough to find. Look for clear bags of sugar in your local store. Salt can be found but you may want to ask someone for the korean word or go to CostCo. to buy it.

I have seen olive oil at CostCo.

Flour can be found many places.

There is a store not far from the mosque on the hill in/very near Itaewon. It is literally a little ways down the hill from the mosque. I have seen flat bread (or whatever else people call it) there for a couple thousand won for two pieces. I warm that up in a pan before eating it.

[Xuanzang]

[quote="sojusucks"][quote="Weetbix Kid"]
1 t yeast
1/2 t sugar
1/2 c water
1 t salt
1 T olive oil
1.5 c flour plus extra for kneading

[DavePuff]

You can buy a good, 26L oven for around 57,000 won on E Market. They'll deliver anywhere. If you have trouble ordering (although its all in English) get a Korean friend or co-worker to help you out.

Don't ask, tell them they are going to help you.

Oven is great for doing chickens, vegetables, whatever.

[Kwangjuchicken]

[DavePuff]

[crazy_arcade]

sounds like real healthy eating.....

[Kwangjuchicken]